Store-service cabinet.



Patentbd May 29, I900. A. G. DUNCAN.

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A. G. DUNCAN. STORE SERVICE CABINET. (Application filed. Jan. 31, 1899.)

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'NITED STATES PATENT Errol.

ALEXANDER GEO. DUNCAN, or RYAN, row/i.

STORE-SERVICE CABIN Er.

SPEGIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,456, dated my 29, 1960'.

Application filed January 31, 1899. SerialNo. 704,010. (No model) To ['LZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that -I, ALEXANDER GEORGE DUNCAN, a citizen of the United States, resid ing at Ryan, in the county of Delaware and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Store-Service Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a store-service cabinet for containing paper bags and one or more paper rolls to house them from dust and dirt; and the primary object in view is to provide a simple and compact structure having its parts arranged to permit of easy and quick withdrawal of bags and wrapping-paper and to display to View the different sizes of bags which are contained in the cabinet;

A further object of the invention is to provide the cabinet with means which serve to close the opening from the compartment which contains the paper roll or rolls and which also serve to cut off the length of paper from the roll.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

To enable others to understand the invention, I have illustrated the same in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a store-service cabinet constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the cabinet. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view of one of the flap-doors and knife-plates which serve the twofold purpose of closing the opening to the paperroll compartment and of cutting off the length of paper from the web of the roll. a detail view, in front'elevation, of the cross rail of the cabinet, showing the cleat for holding the edge of paper from one of the rolls. Fig. 6 is a detail horizontal sectional view-on the line 6, 6, Fig. 3.

Like numerals of reference denote like and corresponding parts in each of the several.

figures of the drawings.

The casing 10 of my improved cabinet is preferably of the contour illustrated more clearly by Fig. 1, and it consists of the side cabinet.

Fig. 5 is walls 11 and the hollow or chambered back 12. The back 12 of the cabinet is made hollow or chambered, and it consists of the wall 12, the door 12 the opposite side walls'12, and the top and bottom, thus forming a compartment adapted to receive a series of shelves 12 The chambered back of the cabinet is thus made to serve the purpose of a showdoor 12 is preferably skeletoniz'ed to receive the panes of glass or other transparent material, as shown more clearly by Figs. 2 and 3, and the door is hinged, as at 13, to one of the side walls of the chambered back 12 for the purpose of exposing the shelves therein, and thereby enable the attendant to gain ready access to the hollow back in order to place the articles in or remove them from the compartments of the hinged back. It will be noted that the wall 12 of the hinged back also forms a closure for the rear end of the compartments in the front portion of the The side walls 11 of the casing are formed with the inclined frontedges 1 1 15, which gives to the front of the cabinet a rearwardly and upwardly sloping appearance for the purpose of exposing the different sizes of bags which are contained in the upper 0on1- partments of said casing. The inclined edges 15 of the side walls lie at obtuse angles to the inclined edges 14 of said walls, and the easing is caused to project at its lower part forwardly with respect to the upper and rear part, thus forniingin the bottom of the easing a large compartment adapted to contain one or a series of rolls of-wrapping-paper. The front side of the upper section of the cabinet is open; but the front end of the lower compartment, which contains the roll-' paper holders, is closed by a short front wall 16, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) and this front wall is secured firmly in place to the side walls of the casing 10.

In the upper section of the cabinet is se- 2 esogite cured a series of shelves 17, which are arranged at proper intervals from each other and are preferably inclined from the rear side of the cabinet toward the open front side thereof. The spaces between the shelves are divided by intermediate partitions 18, which are fitted in grooves in the shelves and provide a series of compartments. The partitions may be fitted to the shelves at proper intervals from each other in order to form the compartments adapted to receive the paper bags for use by the merchant in dispensing groceries and other articles, and. theseparti tions may be adjusted to vary the size of the bag-compartments. As shown in' Fig. 1, the partitions are secured between the two lower shelves to form a series of compartments 19, which are of comparatively-large capacity, to receive and contain bags of large size; but the partitions between the upper series of shelves are arranged closer together to form the compartments 20, which are much smaller than the compartments 19 and are designed to contain the small sizes of paper bags. It will be observed that I have constructed the cabinet with a plurality of compartments 19 20, which are of graduated sizes, to receive the difierent sizes of paper bags required to meet the demands of the merchant, and by giving the front of the cabinet the upwardly and rearwardly sloping appearance the series of shelves are exposed, so that the salesman can obtain ready access to the different sizes of bags for withdrawing them from the compartments at the open front side of the cabinet.

Toprevent the bags from being pulled out of the compartments or of being displaced accidentally therein, I provide the retainers 21, which are fastened to the front edges of the partitions 18, as clearly shown by Fig. 1. Each retainer may consist of a metallic plate or of a wooden strip the width of which exceeds the thickness of the partition to which it is applied, and when the retainer is fastened in place by nails or other fastening devices its edges project beyond the faces of the partition across the open front end of the compartment to serve as stops for the end edges of the stack of bags contained within said compartment. Each retainer is fastened in place on the partition to have its lower end extend across one shelf, and the edge of each shelf terminates in rear of the front edge of the partition (see Fig. 2) for the purpose of providing openings 22,-through which the underneath bag may be conveniently withdrawn from the compartment by pulling in a down ward direction on the front edge of the bag.

The large bottom compartment 23 of the cabinet is adapted to contain one or more roll-holders that support the rolls of wrapping-paper. The open upper side of this forward end of the compartment 23 is spanned by the cross-rails 24 25, one of which is secured firmly to the sides and lowermost shelf of the casing, while the other cross-rail 24 is situated midway between the rail 25 and the short front wall 16 of the casing. As shown by Fig. 2 of the drawings, the roll-holders 26 have their supporting-frames secured one in rear of the other to the bottom 23 of the compartment 23, and each roll-holder is equipped with a removable core 27, which, as is ordinary in the art, is designed to be supported removably in the frame for the purpose of withdrawing said core when the web of wrapping-paper is exhausted. The bottom 23 of the casing 10 is fitted in place so that it may slide in or out of the casing when thehinged back, 12 is swung to its open position, and the bottom may thusbe adjusted toexpose the roll-holders for easy access thereto.

The spaces between the cross-rails 24. 25 and the front wall'16 ofthe cabinet are normally closed by the flaps or plates 28 29, and these flaps or plates serve to exclude dust and dirt from the paper contained in the compartment 23 and as cutters for severing the length of wrappingpaper from the web coiled on the core of the roll-holder. The flap or plate 28 is connected to the cross-rail 2 1 by means of spring-hinges 30, which act to normally depress the plate or flap 28 across the opening between the rail 24 and the partition 16, so that the free edge of the flap or plate 28 normally rests on a ledge or cleat attached to the front wall 16. The other flap or plate 29 is connected by the spring-hinges 30 to the cross-rail 25, and it is arranged to span the space between the rails 24 25. The spring-hinges of the plate 29 normally depress the same for its free edge to rest upon a cleat or ledge on the cross-rail 24:, and thus the proper openings or passages from the compartment 23 are normally closed by flaps or plates, which exclude dust from the paper rolls. The hinged plates or flaps 28 29 have cutting edges 31 at their free or unconfined ends, and these cutting edges are normally held by the spring-hinges in engagement with the ledges or cleats on the rail 24, and the front wall 16. The flaps or plates may easily be lifted by hand for the operator to gain access to the compartment 23 for the purpose of adjusting the webs of paper across the wall 16 and the rail 24, and the pressure of the spring-controlled flaps or plates of the paper webs serves to normally hold or confine the ends of the webs between said flaps or plates and the cleats on the rail 24: and the front wall 16. The front wall 16 and rail 24 have slots 24: at the middle thereof for the erator draws the proper length of paper from one of the rolls in the compartment 23, and the paper is then drawn sidewise, so that it will be torn off by the edge 31 of the flap or plate. During this operation of tearing off the length of paper the spring-hinges keep the flap or plate pressed firmly upon the pa-' per, and the flap is thus adapted by reason of the pressure exerted thereon by the springs to be held in position in a manner to facilitate the operation of severing the length of paper from the web which is coiled on the roll. It will be understood that wrapping paper may be withdrawn from either of the rolls, and as the cabinet is constructed to contain two or more roll-holders a large supply of wrapping-paper is constantly available.

The cabinet is also equipped with a cordholder, which is supported on the upper end of the casing. This cord-holder has a yoke 32, adapted to receive the spool or spindle of the cord bobbin or roll, and on the yoke is fnlcrumed, as at 33, a lever 34, which extends forward over the cabinet and which has its rear end counterpoised by the weight35.

The desired quantity of paper bags in assorted sizes may be placed in the compartments 19 20 of the cabinet by inserting the bags over the retainers, and when placing the bags in said compartments they are adapted to impinge against the retainers 21, that serve to limit the forward movement of the bags. The back 12 of the cabinet may be swung open for the rolls of paper to be readily placed in the compartment 23, and the ends of the paper webs are clamped between the springpressed flaps or plates and the cleats 24 of the rail 24 and the front wall 16. A bag of the desired size may easily be withdrawn through the opening 22 from any one of the compartments, and the retainers prevent the stack of bags in the compartment from being displaced when the lowermost bag is pulled out. The length of paper may be withdrawn from either of the rolls and readily torn off by the edge 31 of the flap.

The cabinet presents a neat appearance, and it keeps the bags and wrapping-paper in order and free from accumulations of dust. It is simple in construction, convenient in use, and inexpensive of manufacture.

Changes may be made in the form and proportion of some of the parts while their essential features are retained and the spirit of the invention embodied. Hence I do not desire to be limited to the precise form of all the parts as shown, reserving the right to vary therefrom.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is l. A store-service cabinet provided with a paper-compartment having an opening which occupies a portion of the top and front thereof, a cross-rail arranged centrally of saidopening, a plurality of spring controlled flaps jointly covering said opening and'forming paper-cutters arranged in stepped order in different planes and hinged to the cabinet .to normally close the space at each side of the cross-rail, so that one flap or plate may rest on the cross-rail and the other on the front wall of the cabinet, and a plurality of papersupply devices, mounted within said compartment, substantially as set forth.'

2. A store-service cabinet comprising a cas-- ing having a cross-rail provided with a notch and a cleat extending above the edge of said rail, and a spring-pressed flap hinged to the casing and resting on the cleat, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER GEO. DUNCAN.

Witnesses:

JOHN DOLPHIN,

E. E. MoCLoUD. 

